As names continue to be bandied about in the Mets’ front office search, MLB Network’s Jon Heyman reports that Twins assistant general manager Daniel Adler will be staying put. It’s not clear whether Adler had a formal interview. He was previously reported to be “on the Mets’ radar,” but both Heyman and SNY’s Andy Martino suggest that Adler prefers to remain in Minnesota rather than pursue outside opportunities — be it with the Mets or another club.
Adler has spent the past four-plus years in the Twins’ front office. Initially hired as the team’s director of baseball operations, he was bumped up to assistant general manager over the 2019-20 offseason. Prior to being hired by Minnesota, the now 34-year-old Adler spent a few seasons working in research and development with the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars.
Apparently, Adler has decided to spend at least one more season with the Twins, although it wouldn’t be a surprise if his name comes up in other executive searches in future offseasons. For now, his decision to stay put removes another candidate for the Mets, whose search for a new baseball operations leader has already seen numerous targets either take themselves out of consideration or not receive permission from their current clubs to interview with New York.
While Adler’s no longer in the running for the position, another candidate has emerged. The Mets are considering Orioles assistant GM Sig Mejdal as part of their ongoing search, report Dan Connolly and Britt Ghiroli of the Athletic (Twitter link), although they caution it’s unclear as of yet whether Mejdal has interest in the position.
Mejdal has spent the past three seasons as an AGM with Baltimore, serving as a top lieutenant for baseball ops leader Mike Elias. Mejdal, 55, followed Elias to the O’s after six years working together in the Astros’ front office. A former NASA biomathematician, Mejdal has been a key member of Elias’ analytics staff in Baltimore.
Whoever loses the Virginia Gubernatorial race will be the next Mets PBO.
The Mets are the bullied kid at recess now. Everyone tells them no just to do it.
It’s not because they say “no just to do it.” It’s because no one knows what direction that franchise is going. To put it very nicely that team is a hot mess and really not all that hot. Cohen has money but all he has done is spend stupid money so far. He doesn’t seem to know how to make his wallet a winning asset. Teams are also probably upset that other free agents get to compare their stats to Lindor and say they deserve more than him. They definitely deserve more than Lindor but Cohen paid him way too much so it isn’t a fair assessment. Cohen also seems to want more control than most owners. People don’t want to work for an owner with all those flaws. Not to mention no one wants to work for Sandy Alderson at this point. The Mets look like a terrible destination for anyone right now unless Cohen is willing to pay them far more than what they are worth. It’s a bad situation for a team to be in. Everyone knows they have money so they will have to pay top dollar for any free agent. They haven’t been able to turn all that money into any production though. They couldn’t even finish in 2nd place in a division that is bad.
I meant bad in terms of top team win total. I think the NL East is competitive all around and has the best low end team in MLB. The Mets still couldn’t even finish as runner up in a division where the Champion had the worst record of any playoff team. That’s not very promising. The Nationals are probably worse but the Marlins at least have a clear direction.
Lol this whole paragraphs couldn’t be more wrong… but good try..
Someone translate please
Cohen spending stupid money on Lindor was one thing but that sad part is he’s probably going to spend foolishly on Baez. Cohen sounds like a control freak no wonder all these execs from other teams are staying away.
That’s the one thing the Pirates have as an advantage over big spenders like the Mets and Angels.
Bob Nutting may be a tight wad and is mocked relentlessly on forums like this, but at least Cherrington has total control of baseball ops, and will hopefully produce a high talent winning team within the next five years (as Huntington/Hurdle did in the last decade).
I agree; that contract was ridiculous and undeserved. Cohen should have left it off the table for discussion until the off-season. Had he, we would have had plenty of money to clean up this mess of a team right now. He also should’ve left it to whichever GM we had at the time, to handle it themselves. That whole dinner thing with Cohen and Lindor was ludicrous.
Missed War – All of this is nonsense.
The Nationals are definitely worse, but in a few years probably won’t be.
@missed
Every team has to pay top dollar for every free agent they sign. That’s because they decided to pay more than 29 other teams thought that player was worth.
And probably do a better job too.
Bobby Valentine is now available as he lost his bid for Stamford Ct. Mayor. LOL
nypost.com/2021/11/03/ex-mets-manager-bobby-valent…
Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine lost his bid to become the mayor of Stamford, Conn. on Tuesday — and blamed the press for the loss citing all the “lousy” coverage.
Democratic state Rep. Caroline Simmons appeared to win the race — though the Associated Press warned the contest was too tight to call and could be decided by outstanding absentee ballots.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Your team has been rebuilding for thirty years lmao
Don’t care, LOLMETS forever
It’s time to hire a fan who calls into sports shows as the GM. That’s always a bastion of “realistic” trade proposals. Nobody else seems to want the position so why not?
Honestly, that would be so much fun.
Create a reality show called America’s next GM, get a bunch of characters and fanatics who call in to radio shows, and have viewers vote. Winner of the show gets the Mets GM job.
As a Mets fan, can I speak for others and just say I don’t freaking care anymore? Just hire someone or don’t. I feel like I’m reading Page 2 of the Post. All these writers are throwing out these names. Unless they actually interviewed with the Mets, stop the damn speculations.
And I’m not lashing out at MLBTR; I get they’re just reporting what’s out there. But enough is enough; I just don’t care anymore. This has become a running joke at this point, and as a Mets fan, I was really hoping new ownership would have meant less of this BS.
I would have never guessed hiring a GM could be so demoralizing to a fan base.
Mets fans keep your head up, you’ll get through this too.
Talk to Billy Eppler, he knows how to maintain a mediocre ball club.
You are so right, the Padres were shocked to get BobMelvin, you never know how this will end up, may be a great GM will show up and help everything out; Who thought the Braves would win the World Series tonight? We were just a good team as them if managed right..Let’s hold on and see what unfolds..
It’s only a running joke cuz folks love to crap all over the Mets. The team craves headlines and therefore fuels such fires but really there is nothing to be frustrated about here. They’ll get their POBO or GM or whatever, there’s really nothing unusual in that they haven’t hired anyone yet. The Met haters are just delusional idiots with nothing better to do. Again, there’s really nothing particularly unusual or frustrating about any of this other than how some clowns insist on twisting everything Mets into some distorted LOL narrative that just isn’t there.
Cosmo2;
There you go again – taking things so seriously and acting like everything’s going along swimmingly.
See my post below about going back to Mets tradition.
There are 30 MLB POBO positions available. It’s more than just a plum job. It’s one a thousand working in the industry 24/7/365 aspire to – often taking intern jobs for a stipend to get started. The Mets have one available, and they can’t find someone to even come in for an interview.
I agree with your first sentence. Yes, it’s a running joke. And yes, non-Mets fans like to crap all over the team. But so what? Learn to have fun with it.
The Cubs had Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins, and Ron Santo. Fans loved ’em. Loved all the players. In that case there was no free agency. Those guys spent most of their careers with the Cubs. deGrom and Alonzo are in the same class for Mets fans. Enjoy them, because I doubt they’ll spend most of the remainder or their careers with the team.
Sure, someone will take the Mets job sooner or later. They may do a marketing thing where they rename it or restructure it But they’ll do something. P.K. Wrigley had his “College of Coaches” one year that he rotated to manage the team because he couldn’t hire a decent manger.
Roll with it. HAVE FUN WITH IT!
“On the Mets radar” means Mets had no interest at all and it’s just another made up candidate
New York Papers need subscriptions. The election is over. Time for the Mets on the Front and Back pages. Too bad their front office choices would rather end up in Page Six of the NU Post. How about Jim Bowden and his leather pants the Sequel ? (Somebody please whisper “Brian Sabean” to Mr Cohen while he’s sleeping so it takes hold subliminally )
Cashman has been in place so long you don’t know whether this is purely a Mets thing or a New York thing. But it is weird. Ownership will spend, there’s some talent on the team and they have “esthetic” hope. Unless there’s something internally going on, some precondition to hiring that turns folks off, this does seem odd. It’s not like there are a dozen GM positions open.
The silence is deafening. It’s as if everyone is waiting for a negative shoe to drop. It probably would have helped had the Mets put out some type of timeline statement. Even something vague like, “We are rounding up candidates and will have these positions filled by the winter meetings” would have worked. Instead, we get the sense that Cohen swung for the fences and missed on his main targets and doesn’t have a Plan B. Naturally, fans are wondering what’s up with this job since no one seems to want it.
The only thing that’s going on is that the Mets are publicly going after a lot of candidates who are unlikely to leave their current situations. Plenty of people would love the job, the team just needs to interview them instead of guys like Beane who would be a long shot for any organization.
Get Sandy some Groucho glasses, we’ll all pretend he’s the hot new hire, and we can be done with this.
Surf music?
Can’t get enough of it.
Good screenname.
I’ve seen them. Link Wray too. Great soundtrack on a cafe racer.
No one on a winning team will take the job and now we are quickly exhausting candidates from losing teams. Maybe it’s time to start considering candidates with little to no experience.
What could go wrong? It isn’t like Sandy Alderson won’t be looking over his shoulder. Just go down to Harvard/Yale, grab a kid about to graduate and make him POBO.
Please don’t take Mejdal from Baltimore. He’s practically all we have!
I think the rumblings in my stomach are more exciting than this latest news.
Just ask Kyrie Irving why people won’t come to New York.
Because they think the Earth is flat and lots of other nutty stuff?
Why? Because he chooses to live in fear and won’t get a shot?
I’ll start asking Kyrie Irving for advice when he passes any college course.
Bucsfan you might wanna check dude graduated from Duke!
Graduated from Duke? I must have missed that. He played one season at Duke. When did he earn his degree?
Kyrie Irving is from New Jersey dude
Because Kyrie Irving actually believes the world is flat? That’s the Kyrie Irving we should asking for advice?
It’s getting to a point where MLBTR can save themselves some time by listing the four people the Mets are NOT interested in…
Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, and Ice-T.
May as well hire Matt Klentak…
How do we know that Klentak himself hasn’t already ruled himself out of consideration for the job?
Even in an orange jumpsuit, I think Mario Cuomo accepts the job
Well he died several years ago so….
You mean Andrew or Chris not Mario.
Nobody wants the job. It’s probably going to end up being Chris Christie. Maybe Mike Francesa if he’s interested.
Cohen is desperate to steal the back pages and he doesn’t want this search lingering on much longer. He already has Christie actively advising him on who to hire. Only so many more candidates can publicly turn the job down at this point before Chris recommends himself and Cohen pulls the trigger.
Plenty of folks want the job, the Mets just need to offer it to them instead of trying to grab headlines with big names who are unlikely to leave their current positions.
Agreed. I have won lots of roto leagues, I will get smart scouts to advise me and stay in my lane.
Hire me, I’ll gladly take the job.
I played Little League over 50 years ago. Am I qualified?
Mejdal would be a great hire
Jeff Luhnow is looking more and more like the best option. He and Steve Cohen appear to be cut from the same cloth; win at all costs, ethics and norms be damned.
While he has a checkered past, he seems to have been more of the scapegoat for the Astros cheating and not the ring leader. Plus he’s never sent dpics to women or harassed them. So there’s that.
Very very doubtful Luhnow works in baseball again
I agree. Donald Fehr has a better shot at getting the job than Luhnow.
I don’t disagree with y’all, you’re likely right. But:
1) JL has generally been cleared of participation and maybe even knowledge (though doubtful) of the Astros cheating.
2) Steve Cohen talks about results. If the Mets win after hiring JL, no one in New York would say anything his tenure with the Astros.
3) Are there character questions? Maybe. Did he brake any laws or directly harm people (especially women)? Don’t think so.
4) It’s redic that Alex Cora, who actively participated / led rampant cheating with two organizations got rehired by the same team he cheated with.
From an outsider’s perspective, this looks horrible for the Mets. Mets fans can make all the excuses they want, but this is like the 10th guy who appears to have turned down the Mets for an interview. They must have a reputation in the baseball community as a bad organization to be associated with. I’m indifferent towards the Mets so objectively, it looks bad.
They’re just stupidly going after long shots. They need to wise up and be more realistic.
There was a phrase that started about 25 years ago. It became a cliché:
“Be careful what you wish for”.
Met fans wished Steven A. Cohen would buy the team from the broke Wilpon’s. Because, see, NYC sports fans know that spending money is all it takes to win championships.
Mets fans got their wish.
Welcome to Wilpon’s – The Sequel.
There will be some blips – like the Lindor signing that looked so good before the season started. But if you elect to remain a baseball fan, you either find another team to root for, or you remain a Met fan and bang your head against the wall for at least the next 10-15 years.
Hey Samuel – I agree. NY fans should know based on the Yankees drought that a high payroll does not equate to a championship. Angels fans also know that based our team’s abysmal recent history. Throwing money at a problem doesn’t fix it. Throwing money at the correct solution can help but is rarely enough on its own. Few teams figure that out. Angels fans always yell about Moreno needing to “open his wallet” and buy every free agent on the market. That’s very short sighted and rarely works out.
Or Mets fans, you can have fun with it…….
Think of Cubs fans and 49 years of P.K. Wrigley owning the team. By the 1950’s fans laughed about the team, and loved them (remember what GM Dallas Green said when shortly after he took over the team: “I trade away a player to make the team better, but the fans are so in love with him that they get mad at me”) .
Think of the tradition of the Mets. Remember what Casey said:
“Can’t anyone here play this game?”
The Mets winning the WS in 1969 changed the fans perspective for the worse. Go back to your tradition. So what if the players misjudge fly balls. Make bonehead plays running the bases. Fielders playing out of position bobble balls and throw them wildly. Traded guys do well with other teams. It’s entertainment. It’s comical. There’s always next year. HAVE FUN WITH IT!
Yo La Tengo got a perfectly good band name after the Mets’ early ineptness. The future might be bright in that regard. How do you say “I don’t want the job” in Spanish?
I don’t think the Lindor signing ever looked good.
Fine.
You’re in the minority of Mets fans.
For sure. The majority of Met fans think players are underpaid, spending equals winning and that owners should run their teams at a loss. They are wrong on all of it. Lindor didn’t even have that disappointing of a season, the contract is just way too big.
Cosmo-
You almost got that right. Change Met fans to just fans. NYM don’t have a monopoly on those viewpoints. Its thru out the sport.
hire scott boras!
By the time the Winter Meetings get going, The Mets will have no choice but to hire the Citifield Custodian.
Orlando Dec 1st
Janitor-Mr Beane. I know you guys are going into complete rebuild mode. How about I offer 20 cases of Comet and because I’m a nice guy I’ll throw in 20 cases of Tide D Bowl. God knows that home dugout of yours could use it after that broken sewer pipe. And you give me Matt Olsen and you pay 90% of his salary. Do we have deal sir?
Beane-I don’t know who you are or where came from. But I don’t entertain trading players for cleaning products that I can buy at
Costco. What kind of Circus is your owner is running over there. Try selling crazy somewhere else.
Janitor- Can you speak up Mr. Beane. I’m calling you from a old pay phone that was in Shea Stadium at one time.
Beane-Good Day too you.
Janitor- What did I do with Casman’s number…He hasn’t gotten back to me about Jeter.
What kind of cess pool is the
amazing’s front office that no one of note wants to work there!!??
Who says no one wants to work there? A series of high profile long shots have passed, that’s all.
They’ll end up poaching someone from the Atlantic League and then claim he was their first choice.
This is all a brilliant setup to hire Ludnow. No one can blame them for hiring a cheater if everyone else noteworthy declined the job first.
The negativity during this World Series telecast is maddening. As Freddie Freeman rounds the bases after hitting a home run, Joe Buck feels the need to say the homer came “in what might be his last at-bat as an Atlanta Brave.” This after spending the entire at-bat talking about Freeman’s pending free agency.
Yeah, not a fan of Joe Buck. Finding or creating controversy seems to be a must in broadcasting everywhere, not just baseball.
It’s a constant in Game of the Week telecasts, which draw lots of fringe fans not yet committed to the game. They’ll spend nine innings talking about what’s wrong with baseball. It’s like telling viewers to change the channel. What other sport does that? NBA broadcasters embraced the sport’s new era and the league grew in popularity because of it. In the World Series, we hear Smoltz complaining over and over about starting pitchers not going long enough.
Congrats to the Atlanta Braves. That whole organization deserves credit for an outstanding job.
Yeah, hire an Assistant GM from the hapless O’s, that’s the ticket.
Separately, congrats to the Braves for their WS win.
Well, it’s time to think outside the box here for the Mets. Maybe look to baseball executives in Japan or Korean baseball leagues. See what some of the successful people are doing there and if they would go to NY.
Or just hire someone instead of seeking headlines. The idea that they’ve been turned down by half the baseball world is a myth. They’ve not even started looking yet outside of big names who were never likely to leave their current positions in the first place.
Another rejection and they have been turned down by at least 10-12 people likely more.No
myth here.Just realize the owner is a LOOOOOOOOOOOOSER and no one wants that job.
Meanwhile in Storage Container located in the Citi Field Parking Lot…..
Da Da Da Ding….. Da Da Ding……
Oakland A’s Receptionist- Hello Oakland A’s Front Office How can I direct your call?
HKIII- Mr. Beane please
Rep-May I ask who’s calling
HKIII- That would would be Hank Kimble the 3rd Ma’am
Rep- And who do you represent?,Mr Beane is very busy man.
HKIII- I’m the GM of the New York Mets
Rep- Don’t you have Mr. Beane’s Cell Number?
HKIII-No Ma’am
Rep-Very well, Please hold.
Billy Beane-Hello
HKIII-Howdy Do Mr. Beane. My name is Hank Kimble newly appointed GM of The New York Mets
BB-For Cripe sakes they finally found someone to take the job. What happened Mr. Heaney wasn’t available? hahahaha
HKIII-WOW Wee You know Mr. Haney?My father spoke very highly of him. Well not very highly err well to be honest he was a bit of jerk. Well come to think of a complete *-hole Well anyways to answer your question, I was the head custodian/janitor here at Citifield and the job just fell into my lap. Well not really fell into my lap.,Come to think of it it was either me or Sam Drucker’s kid Kim Drucker or was it Tim?
Well anyways I called the Word Series is over and it’s time to deal.
BB- Deal? have you had time to even go over our roster?
HKIII-Oooooh wee have I ever. I’m interested in your 3rd baseman Eric Chavez. That young man can hit a ball a country mile. Well not really a mile. more like over the fence!!
I haven’t seen arms on a guy like that since Guns-N- Roses rolled into Hooterville and that singer Axl Rose gave Eb a fore arm shiver for starting a mosh pit doing the song November Rain
BB- Eric Chavez? Lol, Mr. Kimble, Eric Chavez hasn’t been with us since the 2010 season.
HKIII- Man I to heck. I was prepare to offer you 2 pallets of Chairman Bathroom Tissue and a truck load of Tide Laundry Detergent.
BB-You listen to me Mr. Kimble. I don’t who you are or where you’re from. But I don’t deal any of my ballplayers for things I can buy in bulk at Costco. Nothing personal, but you need to tell your inept owner to hire a REAL Baseball man as his PBO or GM. Good Day Sir!!! Click!!
HKIII-Hello? Hello?? Awww Heck!!! My Blackberry’s battery is dead. Awww no wonder I was trying for Eric Chavez. They gave me a 2001 MLB GM Handbook.I thought it was a 2021.